Ragg It: March 2011

Stephan Tillmans

Luminant Point Arrays (leuchtpunktordnungen):

The Luminant Point Arrays show tube televisions in the moment they are swicthed off. The television picture breaks down and creates a structure of light. The pictures refuse external reference and broach the issue of the difference between abstraction and concretion in photography. The breakdown of the television picture describes the breakdown of the reference. The product is self-referential photography.
http://www.stephantillmans.com/index.php?/portfolio/leuchtpunktordnungen/

http://ilikethisart.net/?p=9279

http://www.stephantillmans.com/

Regine Petersen

Find a Falling Star:
http://www.reginepetersen.com/work%20in%20progress/e_01.html

To Think About Things:
http://www.reginepetersen.com/dashaar/e_01.html

Diary:
http://www.reginepetersen.com/alphabet/e_01.html

http://www.reginepetersen.com

Gérard Grisey

Periodes:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Ykw6mzq8qw

Epilogue

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9if0JAQoEH4

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%A9rard_Grisey

Crossing the Rubicon

The point of no return is the point beyond which someone, or some group of people, must continue on their current course of action, either because turning back is physically impossible, or because to do so would be prohibitively expensive or dangerous. It is also used when the distance or effort required to get back would be greater than the remainder of the journey or task as yet undertaken.

A particular irreversible action (e.g., setting off an explosion or signing a contract) can be a point of no return, but the point of no return can also be a calculated point during a continuous action (such as in aviation).
Contents

Crossing the Rubicon is a metaphor for deliberately proceeding past a point of no return. The phrase originates with Julius Caesar's invasion of Ancient Rome (January 10, 49 BC), when he led his army across the Rubicon River in violation of law, thus making conflict inevitable. Therefore the term "the Rubicon" is used as a synonym to the "point of no return".

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crossing_the_Rubicon

Andrew Neumann

http://adneumann.com

Iman Issa

Colors, Lines, Numbers, Symbols, Shapes, and Images:

http://www.vvork.com/?p=22091
http://imanissa.com/colors-lines-numbers-symbols-shapes-and-images

http://imanissa.com

Evergreen Supertanker

Angelo Plessas

http://www.angeloplessas.com/indexhibitv070e/index.php?/websites/1minuterevolutioncom-2011/

http://www.angeloplessas.com/indexhibitv070e/index.php?/websites/melookingatmecom--2010/

http://www.angeloplessas.com

Dead Letter Office

The United States Postal Service started a dead letter office in 1825 to deal with undeliverable mail. In 2006 approximately 90 million undeliverable-as-addressed (UAA) items ended up in this office; where the rightful owners cannot be identified, the correspondence is destroyed to protect customer privacy, and enclosed items of value are removed. Items of value that cannot be returned are sold at auction, except for pornography and firearms. The auctions also occasionally include items seized by postal inspectors and property being retired from postal service.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_letter_office

Jack Kerouac

"... the only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars and in the middle you see the blue centerlight pop and everybody goes 'Awww!' What did they call such young people in Goethe's Germany?"

"But, outside of being a sweet little girl, she was awfully dumb and capable of doing horrible things."

"They build their own Hells."

"Don't use the phone. People are never ready to answer it. Use poetry."

"You'd be surprised how little I knew even up to yesterday."

"Ray, what you got to do is go climb a mountain..."

"Accept loss forever."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Kerouac

Quim Cardona

http://temple-of-light.blogspot.com/2011/03/quim-cardona.html

http://www.organikaskateboards.com/quim-cardona/

Non Serviam

Non serviam is Latin for "I will not serve". The phrase is generally attributed to Lucifer, who is said to have spoken these words to express rejection to serve his God in the heavenly kingdom.

Today "Non serviam" is also used or referred to as motto by a number of political, cultural, and religious groups to express their wish not to conform; it may be used to express a radical view against established common beliefs and organisational structures accepted by the majority.

In James Joyce's A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Father Arnall uses the phrase "Non serviam: I will not serve" to characterize Lucifer's sin, an allusion to Lucifer's assertion of non serviam to God in Milton's Paradise Lost, where the fallen angel Mammon states that it is "Better to reign in hell than serve in heaven". The protagonist Stephen Dedalus later echoes Lucifer in his decision to follow the life of the artist, telling Cranly, "I will not serve that in which I no longer believe whether it call itself my home, my fatherland or my church." Eamonn Hughes maintains that Joyce takes a dialectic approach, both assenting and denying, saying that Steven’s much noted non serviam is qualified - “I will not serve that which I no longer believe…”, and that the non serviam will always be balanced by Stephen’s “I am a servant…” and Molly’s “yes”.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non_serviam